Thickening

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thicken \Thick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thickened}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Thickening}.]
     To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: 
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     (a) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
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     (b) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken
         cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
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     (c) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.]
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               And this may to thicken other proofs. --Shak.
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     (d) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thickening \Thick"en*ing\, n.
     Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thickening
       adj 1: accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening
              gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering
              darkness"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: {deepening(a)},
               {gathering(a)}, {thickening(a)}]
       2: becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"
       n 1: any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as
            a thickening" [syn: {thickener}]
       2: any thickened enlargement [syn: {node}, {knob}]
       3: the act of thickening [syn: {inspissation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "thickening":
     adhesiveness, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation,
     colloidality, concretion, congealment, congelation, curdling,
     doughiness, gelatination, gelatinity, gelatinization,
     gelatinousness, gelling, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity,
     glutinousness, gumlikeness, gumminess, heaviness, incrassation,
     inspissation, jellification, jelling, jellying, jellylikeness,
     lentor, mucilaginousness, pastiness, ropiness, setting, slabbiness,
     sliminess, spissitude, stickiness, stodginess, stringiness,
     syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickness,
     toughness, treacliness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness